ASIN: B0DTHFXGRX
Publisher: Open Road Media
Pages: 302
In this Southern gothic classic by a Nobel Prize winner, the shadows of war drive a wedge between a wealthy Mississippi family and their dreams. At the end of the Civil War, Confederate Colonel John Sartoris brought the railroad to Jefferson, Mississippi, where he planted roots, grew a family, and became a legend . . . Decades later, the once prosperous Sartoris clan is experiencing a reversal of fortune. Two of Colonel John’s great-grandsons—twins John and Young Bayard—are fighter pilots in the First World War, but only Young Bayard returns home alive. Now the young man faces a new battle. Hoping to move on, Young Bayard settles down with the lovely Narcissa Benbow. Yet guilt, grief, and his family’s ghosts refuse to let him go. Theirs is a reality from which there is no way out, only a living death or violent self-destruction . . . Originally published in 1929, Sartoris was Faulkner’s ...
